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Graphics are the least of my concerns, in fact I didn't even mention them.
Oh I wasn't responding to you. Just to the graphics whores. :) And nothing against them. Maybe if I had the cash to get a new system I'd be a graphics whore too. 2006 era ATI X1400 Mobility is the most powerful thing I'm rocking. I'm still surprised that it can handle some of the recent games (on really low res of course). |
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Sky
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2006 era ATI X1400 Mobility is the most powerful thing I'm rocking.
Thus, WoW. Graphics are the least of my concerns, in fact I didn't even mention them.
Because your post changed the conversation of the six posts before yours. |
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raydeen
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2006 era ATI X1400 Mobility is the most powerful thing I'm rocking.
Thus, WoW. Actually I did get away with playing AoC and WAR for a while. Just couldn't stick with either because of the gameplay. No fun after Tortage or T1. I did like both for a bit but even if I'd had an uber rig, not all the eye candy in the world would have made either game fun for me. WoW still feels fun but a little of that fun has gone away. There's only one other MMO that I'm playing right now that comes close to (and in someways surpasses) WoW fun but I can't elaborate due to NDA. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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The first thing my friend from work said about wow after only having played console games(she's a sonic fan apparently) was that wow was very pretty. Take that as you like, maybe wow's graphics aren't top of the line photorealistic but if people new to the entire genre see them and say "this game is pretty" then I think they are doing the job.
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Sky
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And maybe Kanye West is a musical genius if you haven't heard Mozart.
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Ingmar
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The only things that really look noticeably dated to me are some of the original player and monster models. Not liking the style is another thing, but the game holds up visually much better than the other similar MMOs that came out around the same time, IMO.
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Lakov_Sanite
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And maybe Kanye West is a musical genius if you haven't heard Mozart.
One uses the height of technology to make something grand, flashy and overdone while the other is much more simplistic, using basic instruments to create something larger than the sum of it's parts. Yeah, that's a pretty good analogy. |
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Sky
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The only things that really look noticeably dated to me are some of the original player and monster models. Not liking the style is another thing, but the game holds up visually much better than the other similar MMOs that came out around the same time, IMO.
Yessssss. The original models look totally assy now, especially if they're standing anywhere near a goblin (  ), but the enviroments and such look pretty good to me still. I really like the style, though, so that helps a lot. I tried EQ2 recently and it ... didn't look very good to me. |
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raydeen
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And maybe Kanye West is a musical genius if you haven't heard Mozart.
No. Not now. Not ever. |
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Sky
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I like the style of WoW's art, I always have. But I'm a total fucking whore for normal mapping. I've never been a big fan of EQ2's art style, but vastly prefer the game itself and the graphics. But even that is (finally) starting to look dated. But the lighting, normal mapping, shadows, his res textures, they all come together to make a much more enjoyable experience for me.
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Sheepherder
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The combat doesn't even feel that visceral as I remembered, and it immediately felt like something that I played to death for a decade now. Rose glasses. There were a number of classes in the original which could literally be macroed down to one button, assuming they had more than one to begin with. |
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Job601
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And maybe Kanye West is a musical genius if you haven't heard Mozart.
One uses the height of technology to make something grand, flashy and overdone while the other is much more simplistic, using basic instruments to create something larger than the sum of it's parts. Yeah, that's a pretty good analogy. I'm not sure when you're talking about Kanye and when you're talking about Mozart. The Magic Flute, just to pick one, is massively self-indulgent musically and narratively and stretched the ranges of singers and the capacities of an orchestra in ways that had never been done before; meanwhile the last two Kanye West albums have been quite restrained compared to other mainstream hip-hop. |
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Rendakor
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The combat doesn't even feel that visceral as I remembered, and it immediately felt like something that I played to death for a decade now. Rose glasses. There were a number of classes in the original which could literally be macroed down to one button, assuming they had more than one to begin with. There were even some in vanilla. 969 comes to mind, as does the dk/enh sham /castrandom. |
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And maybe Kanye West is a musical genius if you haven't heard Mozart.
One uses the height of technology to make something grand, flashy and overdone while the other is much more simplistic, using basic instruments to create something larger than the sum of it's parts. Yeah, that's a pretty good analogy. I'm not sure when you're talking about Kanye and when you're talking about Mozart. The Magic Flute, just to pick one, is massively self-indulgent musically and narratively and stretched the ranges of singers and the capacities of an orchestra in ways that had never been done before; meanwhile the last two Kanye West albums have been quite restrained compared to other mainstream hip-hop. No, just.. no. Stop before I vomit this thread into the den. |
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Aww. I kinda wanted to ask him to show his work on the Mozart bit.
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NiX
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Decided I won't be getting back into WoW, so I have a CD key for original WoW and TBC if anyone wants them.
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tmp
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Did anyone want it?  |
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Does anyone not have one at this point?  |
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tmp
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My apathy towards WoW struck again so i didn't buy it in the end even at this new price, but yeah, was thinking very much the same so mostly just curious  |
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I have been enjoying my last couple weeks playing, so I went to the cata pre-order page....
THERE IS A QUEUE of 237,246 people and you have to wait 4 hour and 15 minutes to order the game.....
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NiX
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Are you serious?
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Rendakor
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Hahaha oh wow. Position: 319318
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tmp
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Hmm the prices are back to normal. regular WoW: 19.99 Burning Crusade: 29.99 (and it's sold out ) Wrath: 39.99  |
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Reg
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How the hell do you sell out of a digital download?
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How the hell do you sell out of a digital download?
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tmp
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Think they had that with the sparkly pet too. It's something about generating product keys in batches? But generally yeah, what Margalis said.
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Rendakor
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There's gotta be a new Battle Chest coming, with Vanilla, BC and LK together. No way can they really expect people to pay $130 for the whole game.
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tmp
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No way can they really expect people to pay $130 for the whole game.
Well seeing how the price reduction wasn't permanent they seem to be quite comfortable with the idea. |
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